Stripper's Guide to U.S. Comics Strips and Cartoon Panels is an index of (eventually) every comic strip and panel ever to appear in American newspapers. Available in paper form and as database (subscription only).
Offers a chronological and pictorial history of the medium, biographies of creators and publishers, and a gallery of comic book art.
A theoretical internet course focusing on comic book superheroes in America; includes "required reading and assignments".
A study of auto/biographical comics focuses on different issues surrounding masculinity.
A history site of Timely Comics, the predecessor to Marvel Comics. Includes briefs on all the comic book characters who got their start at TC.
A site devoted to the history and details of the 100+ year American comic book medium.
Web resources that can help academic librarians develop a research comic book collection.
A page about the famous American psychiatrist who believed comic books inspired young people to commit crime, and who later became a comic book fan himself.
An interesting proposal to use easy-to-remember icons to present easily-forgotten information; this research was inspired by comic books. Graphic intense.
Information on comic characters including biographies, histories, and images.
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